Dear Sir, Madam,
The Research Team Institutions for Collective Action would kindly like to draw your attention to the call for papers for the 1st IASC Thematic Conference on Urban Commons (Bologna, Italy, 6-7 November 2015; deadline abstracts: 9 August 2015) as well as to the other IASC-conferences scheduled for 2015-2017.
Kind regards,
René van Weeren
Project Assistant Research Team Institutions for Collective Action
Executive Director IASC (per 1 July 2015)
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Call for Papers for the 1st IASC Thematic Conference on Urban Commons (Bologna, 6-7 November 2015),
hosted by the Laboratory for Governance of Commons (LabGov) and the Urban Law Center of Fordham University
Deadline abstracts 9 August 2015
Conference website www.labgov.it/urbancommons
Full version call for papers > see attachment
Inspired by the recently implemented Bologna Regulation on Collaboration for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, as well as by other commons-based experiments in cities around Italy by the LabGov project (e.g. Co-Mantova, Co-Battipaglia and Co-Palermo), the 1st IASC Thematic Conference on the Urban Commons will bring together leading scholars, researchers, policymakers, practitioners and social innovators to take stock of the developments in the interdisciplinary study of the urban commons and related questions of urban governance. Although the urban commons has increasingly appeared as a topic of scholarly inquiry, there has yet to be sustained attention to the research questions, methodologies, and disciplinary approaches necessary to more fully conceptualize and develop the idea of the “urban commons” and the new challenges and facets it introduces into the ongoing study of the commons in diverse fields.
The conference will seek to better understand the idea of urban commons at different scales, under what circumstances and contexts urban commons emerge, what contributes to their durability and effectiveness, and what undermines them. The conference will stress the importance of an "urban commons narrative" for urban infrastructure, urban welfare, and urban development. Additionally, the conference will focus on questions of urban governance and will explore different frameworks for governing common urban resources, and the city, in a collaborative manner. The conference will highlight six thematic questions, which are:
i. Conceiving the Urban Commons
ii. Mapping the Urban Commons
iii. The Urban Commons and Democratic Innovation
iv. The Collaborative/Sharing Economy as the Basis for a Commons-Based Urban Economy
v. Social innovation as the Basis for a Commons-Based Urban Welfare
vi. Designing and Governing the City as a Commons
These thematic areas will be examined through two full days of plenary panels, keynote presentations, and parallel sessions with selected papers from the call for papers. The conference will conclude with a roundtable discussion intended to reflect on the methods and future directions for urban commons research.
Abstracts may be submitted for any of the six thematic tracks described above from June 20 onwards via urbancommons@labgov.it.. The abstracts shall consist of a 500 word maximum description of the research or paper and its originality or value for urban commons studies. All abstracts should be submitted before 10 August 2015, 12:00 AM CET.
Other upcoming IASC-Conferences 2015-2017
In addition to the conference mentioned above, the following IASC-conferences have been scheduled for 2015-2017:
IASC Regional Conference (Europe), 10-13 May 2016, Bern, Switzerland (see flyer in attachment)
‘Commons in a 'glocal' world: global connections and local responses’
Hosted by the University of Bern.
3rd IASC Thematic Conference on Knowledge Commons, 20-21 October 2016, Paris, France
‘Advancing knowledge commons through legal and social changes’
Hosted by SciencesPro and The Université Catholique de Louvain
IASC Regional Conference (N. America/Arctic), Fall 2016, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
‘Reality, richness, and responsibility of an arctic commons’
Hosted by the Institute of the North
XVIth Biennial IASC Conference, 10-14 July 2017, Utrecht, The Netherlands (See www.iasc2017.org)
‘Practicing the commons’
Hosted by Utrecht University
A poster overview of these conferences can be found tin the attachments of this e-mail.
Keep updated on all these and other conferences via the website of the IASC
http://www.iasc-commons.org/conferences